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<title>City wants Comar to pay up for womens expo </title>
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<title>Comar Inc. CEO charged in grant scheme</title>
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<title>Workforce West Virginia defends Comar </title>
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<title>WVSU fires business center director amid workforce grant inquiry</title>
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<title>New charges filed in Comar grant scandal</title>
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<title>Comar grant paid for anti-aging conference</title>
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<title>Workforce official was on panel that hired her housemate</title>
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<title>Former Comar executive Bowling pleads guilty</title>
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>State officials tried to hide grant misuse, FBI papers say</title>
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<title>Federal prosecutors charge Martin Bowling</title>
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<title>Cross Lanes firm must return portion of grant money</title>
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<title>State official resigns amid workforce grant probe </title>
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<title>Subpoenas served in Workforce West Virginia probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  The U.S. Attorneys Office has subpoenaed former and current employees of a Cross Lanes marketing firm to testify next month before a federal grand jury investigating a state employment programs official and her son, convicted felon Ma...]]></description>
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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Workforce W.Va. official provided money to son as early as Dec. 2006</title>
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Fri, 08 May 2009 18:57:45 -0400
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<title>$1 million grant request included positions for state official and her convicted son</title>
<description><![CDATA[         <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/workforcewv" target="_blank">Read past stories on Workforce West Virginia</a>  CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A state workforce training official stood to receive up to $82,700 from a $1 million federal grant she sought...]]></description>
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<title>Convicted computer exec Bowling to be put on home confinement</title>
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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:05:14 -0400
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<title>State Workforce employees ordered to sign ethics code </title>
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<title>Workforce grant suspended amid probe </title>
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<title>Workforce West Virginia chief to quit</title>
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<title>State opens inquiry into Workforce grants</title>
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<description><![CDATA[                    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginias employment programs agency worked to secure a $900,000 federal grant in February for convicted Cross Lanes computer executive Martin Bowling and his employer, Comar Inc., even though Bowling had pleade...]]></description>
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<title>Porn forced convicted computer executives resignation from job with DHHR</title>
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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:53:00 -0400
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<title>Grant paid Bowlings girlfriend $5,000</title>
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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:18:41 -0400
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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:44:10 -0400
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<title>State official distributed grant to sons firm</title>
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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:46:54 -0400
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Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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